Diaries of Frank Filmer, 1908-1918 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5781188
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Filmer, Frank, 1885-1956
- Online Version:
- Also available online
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- Description:
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- [1908-1918]
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1358.
- Summary:
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Four diaries written by Frank Filmer relating to his service with the Churches of Christ mission on Pentecost Island, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Diary 1: 29 February 1908-31 December 1909; Diary 2: 1 January 1910-31 December 1912; Diary 3: 1 January 1913-31 December 1915; Diary 4: 1 January 1916-31 December 1918.
- Biography/History:
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Frank Gordon Filmer was a missionary with the Churches of Christ on Pentecost Island, New Hebrides from 1908-1919. Filmer became engaged to Rosa Jane Fountain and in 1908 left to work as a missionary for the Churches of Christ. He returned to South Australia and on 6 April 1909 Rosa and Frank were married in the Grote Street Church of Christ, Adelaide, South Australia. They had five children, four of whom were born in the islands. In 1923 Rosa developed malaria and died. Filmer returned with his young children to Australia and worked as a minister for the Church of Christ in Kadina, South Australia. He married Vera Edna Woodward in 1925 and returned to work on Ambryn as a plantation manager, where he had two more children. In 1929 they returned to South Australia. Filmer later bought a dairy farm in Meadows where he and his three sons worked.
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- Also available online: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/diaries-relating-to-his-service-with-church-of-christ-mission-on-pentecost-island-new-hebrides-now-vanuatu;isad
- Microfilmed from originals held in private ownership.
- Reproduction:
- Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Subject:
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- Filmer, Frank, 1885-1956 -- Diaries
- Churches of Christ (Australia) -- Missions -- Vanuatu
- Churches of Christ -- Missions -- Vanuatu
- Missionaries -- Australia -- Diaries
- Missionaries -- Vanuatu -- Diaries
- Missions -- Vanuatu -- Pentecost Island
- Christianity -- Vanuatu -- Pentecost Island
- Melanesians -- Vanuatu -- Pentecost Island -- Religion
- Pentecost Island (Vanuatu) -- Social life and customs
- Time Coverage:
- 1908-1918
- Occupation:
- Missionaries
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
- Also Titled:
- Diaries relating to his service with the Church of Christ Mission on Pentecost Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu)
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